After a long period of inactivity MostlyGeek has been updated. The previous version of the site was based on a simple theme I found online. For this new version I have a lot of plans to build up the popularity of the blog. Some of the things I want to achieve is less random content, a cleaner more modern design and more frequent posting.
I started out building a theme from scratch with the Google Blueprint CSS. However after a few days of hacking I found basing the new site off of already available work a much easier approach. I’m big on the iterative progress and thought it would be a good idea to apply that to the construction of the new blog.
For this launch I:
- Upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.5.1
- Started off with the SlipFire.com theme which leverages Google Blueprint
- Added in jQuery to do the slide out Explore navigation
By basing the new blog off a lot of amazing free work I was able to get a theme that:
- Support for Grid based layouts
- Good typography
- Relative font sizes everywhere
- A typographic baseline
- A perfect CSS reset
- Very little bloat
- Cross browser design compatibility
- W3C CSS valid
- Easy to hack and tweak for my needs
All of that in about 2 hours of migration, tweaking and hacking work.
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